Install native 64bit Flash Player 10 on Linux
EDIT 4 (14 July 2011): Adobe released Adobe Flash Player 11 beta 1 so i've wrote a tutorial on how to install adobe flash player 11 on linux 64 bit
EDIT 3 (17 Sept 2010): Adobe launched Adobe® Flash® Player "Square" so i've put together a tutorial on how to install adobe flash player square on linux
EDIT 2: Libflashplayer is now hosted on this site since Adobe killed the URL. It's not anything official or whatever, just a temp home 
EDIT: updated the scripts to install the 64-bit Flash Player 10 alpha refresh for Linux that was released on February, 2010.
Adobe FINALLY released a native 64bit Flash Player 10 plugin. Although this is still an alpha release, the news is very exciting for Linux users, since we don't longer depend on nspluginwrapper, which although does the job, has it's drawbacks.
I have put together a small tutorial on how to install the native flash player 10 64bit plugin for linux.
#!/bin/bash # Script created by # Romeo-Adrian Cioaba romeo.cioaba@spotonearth.com echo "Stopping any Firefox that might be running" sudo killall -9 firefox echo "Removing any other flash plugin previously installed:" sudo apt-get remove -y --purge flashplugin-nonfree gnash gnash-common mozilla-plugin-gnash swfdec-mozilla libflashsupport nspluginwrapper sudo rm -f /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/*flash* sudo rm -f ~/.mozilla/plugins/*flash* sudo rm -f /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/*flash* sudo rm -f /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/*flash* sudo rm -rfd /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper echo "Installing Flash Player 10" cd ~ # since adobe is not hosting libflashplayer anymore, the lib is downloaded from my site. # wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/libflashplayer-10.0.45.2.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz wget http://www.myscienceisbetter.info/flash-player/libflashplayer-10.0.45.2.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz tar zxvf libflashplayer-10.0.45.2.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ echo "Linking the libraries so Firefox and apps depending on XULRunner (vuze, liferea, rsswol) can find it." sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/ sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/xulrunner-addons/plugins/ # now doing some cleaning up: sudo rm -rf libflashplayer.so sudo rm -rf libflashplayer-10.0.45.2.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz
You can now restart firefox 
Some users seem to have problems with viewing this page, so i wrapped everything needed to install the native 64bit flash player on linux into a shell script. Grab the Ubuntu script here, chmod +x and execute it.
Thanks to Claudio de Taunay for providing a script that works in OpenSuSE 11. You can pick it up here.
Thanks to Homer Xing from the Ailurus project you can now install native flash player 64bit on Fedora. You can pick up the script here.
Let me know if you encounter any bugs.
the scripts to install in different distro:
Ubuntu: install native flash 64bit on Ubuntu
Fedora: install native flash 64bit on Fedora
OpenSuse: install native flash 64bit on OpenSuse
May 1st, 2010 - 22:07
Great work, man! Thanks!
With some minor adjustments, it works for Debian too.
Basically, all you need is to substitute ‘firefox’ with ‘iceweasel’.
May 3rd, 2010 - 04:04
This worked on lucid lynx 64-bit. My pr0n works!
May 8th, 2010 - 20:35
wow. thank you for this. it took me a while to find this..everything else i found just did not work. Great job.
May 9th, 2010 - 04:58
In Fedora 12 I am not able to play the youtube.. after executing it is saying plugin in missin
May 9th, 2010 - 18:55
Worked like a charm, thanx !
Got to say tho;
First thing i got to see after running your script was Oprah shaving dr Phill’s mustache. So now I’m wondering if it wasn’t a mistake after all…
May 12th, 2010 - 22:19
I am a new to linux user. I grabber the script but don’t know what to do next. Please help.
May 12th, 2010 - 22:30
Between grabbing it and chmod +x and execute , and ./file, is where I need help. I have no idea what they mean. What specifically do I do with the script that I downloaded?
May 13th, 2010 - 08:57
Never mind, I figured it out on my own. Working perfectly, thanks.
May 15th, 2010 - 15:00
Thanks! After a heap of trouble, your file provided an easy way to get the BBC iPlayer running in Firefox on Ubuntu 10.04. Cheers!
May 24th, 2010 - 18:32
i had to adjust the paths for the symbolic links on fedora 12 64bit.
ln -sf /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/
ln -sf /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.1/components
the paths provided didnt exist on my system and was preventing from firefox (and i guess xulrunner stuff) from actually seeing/using the installed plugin
May 29th, 2010 - 09:15
Thank you so much. Early I had to switch windows in virtual box to get flash 10. This is a nice script.
Thanks again…
June 5th, 2010 - 08:36
And you wonder why Windows is THE operating system..:))
June 7th, 2010 - 08:19
This is no longer working. I am new to to linux and love it so far except the flash player is out of date. I am using Fedora 13 64. I used your code but the url does not work.
June 10th, 2010 - 04:02
Thanks a lot. I just tried the script on Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit and it worked perfectly
June 14th, 2010 - 03:00
Thanks!! Great tutorial, and simple instructions!! It works on Ubuntu 10.4 Lucid Lynx 64 bit.
June 19th, 2010 - 08:18
I run the script ok on my 64 bit Ubuntu 8.10 and Firefox 3.5.3, but no flash player is installed in Firefox, Although libflashplayer.so is in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ directory. Please help.
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umart01@ubuntu01:~/Inastall_SW_HW$ ./native-64bit-flash-installer.sh
Stopping any Firefox that might be running
[sudo] password for umart01:
firefox: no process killed
Removing any other flash plugin previously installed:
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Package gnash is not installed, so not removed
Package gnash-common is not installed, so not removed
Package mozilla-plugin-gnash is not installed, so not removed
Package swfdec-mozilla is not installed, so not removed
Package libflashsupport is not installed, so not removed
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
texlive-common libsgmls-perl libgpg-error-dev docbook-utils docbook-dsssl
libsp1c2 lmodern libostyle1c2 texlive-pstricks docbook-xsl texlive-base-bin
texlive-latex-base texlive-fonts-recommended libdbd-sqlite3-perl sp jadetex
texlive-generic-recommended texlive-latex-recommended openjade
texlive-latex-recommended-doc dvipdfmx latex-beamer gettext prosper tipa
asciidoc texlive-latex-base-doc sgmlspl latex-xcolor cvs libidn11-dev
libtasn1-3-dev texlive-fonts-recommended-doc pgf libcurl4-gnutls-dev
docbook-xsl-doc-html tcl8.5 libgcrypt11-dev texlive-base texlive-doc-base
texlive-base-bin-doc libgnutls-dev libsvn-perl xmlto texlive-pstricks-doc
tex-common libldap2-dev
Use ‘apt-get autoremove’ to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
flashplugin-nonfree* nspluginwrapper*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 651kB disk space will be freed.
(Reading database … 209252 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing flashplugin-nonfree …
Purging configuration files for flashplugin-nonfree …
dpkg – warning: while removing flashplugin-nonfree, directory `/usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins’ not empty so not removed.
Removing nspluginwrapper …
dpkg – warning: while removing nspluginwrapper, directory `/usr/lib/firefox/plugins’ not empty so not removed.
Processing triggers for man-db …
Installing Flash Player 10
–2010-06-18 21:20:11– http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/libflashplayer-10.0.45.2.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz
Resolving download.macromedia.com… 125.252.203.191
Connecting to download.macromedia.com|125.252.203.191|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
Length: 3731155 (3.6M) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: `libflashplayer-10.0.45.2.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz’
100%[======================================>] 3,731,155 159K/s in 23s
2010-06-18 21:20:34 (159 KB/s) – `libflashplayer-10.0.45.2.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz’ saved [3731155/3731155]
libflashplayer.so
Linking the libraries so Firefox and apps depending on XULRunner (vuze, liferea, rsswol) can find it.
umart01@ubuntu01:~/Inastall_SW_HW$ cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 8.10 \n \l
umart01@ubuntu01:~/Inastall_SW_HW$
June 22nd, 2010 - 15:14
Games on Newgrounds work fine, but with no sound. Youtube video’s and Myspace music are being played at double speed with no sound though..
June 24th, 2010 - 05:37
Thank you very much! The script worked out-of-the-box on my Debian machine.
June 29th, 2010 - 20:29
It worked like a charm for me
Thank you so much!
Best regards
July 5th, 2010 - 09:17
Thank you for showing me the location of the 64 bit .so. I could make Chrome (build 5.0.375.99) use the plug-in using the following steps
#gzip -dc libflashplayer-10.0.45.2.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz | tar -xvf -
#mkdir /opt/google/chrome/plugins
#mv libflashplayer.so /opt/google/chrome/plugins
July 7th, 2010 - 09:51
thanx for the help. I had been trying for three days on other threads but this one worked fine for me.
July 9th, 2010 - 21:57
Easy steps:
(1) Remove currently installed versions of Flash.
sudo apt-get purge flashplugin-nonfree flashplugin-installer gnash gnash-common mozilla-plugin-gnash swfdec-mozilla
(2)Download the 64-bit Flash plugin and extract that file:
wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/libflashplayer-10.0.45.2.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz && tar xvfz libflashplayer-10.0.45.2.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz
(3)Put the file into /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer64.so or /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/libflashplayer64.so or (or in ~/.mozilla/plugins for a single-user install):
sudo mv libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/libflashplayer64.so
(or)
sudo mv libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer64.so
(4)mk into it.
sudo mkdir /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer
(5)Install the link (60 is the priority, you can use any value 0-100)
sudo update-alternatives –install /usr/lib/xulrunner-addons/plugins/flashplugin-alternative.so xulrunner-addons-flashplugin /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer64.so 60
Restart the firefox .. now check youtube.
All the best
July 9th, 2010 - 21:59
#################Try the above steps in terminal window##############
July 12th, 2010 - 02:05
WOW DUDE !!! You’re DA MAN !!!!
Seriously, i’ll keep a high priority bookmark on your site !!!
Thanks !
Merci !
Danke!
Klik Pudik ! (Learn to speak martian on martiantalk.com)
July 12th, 2010 - 16:12
Thank you soooooooo much for this. I spent 6 months ignoring youtube issues on 9.10. When I upgraded to 10.0.4 and found even more issues I thought I would kill somebody. Then I run this one little script and youtube works like it should.
July 14th, 2010 - 09:42
Very good work, especially in the cleaning-up before installing !
July 20th, 2010 - 05:07
How UN-original of me : another “Thank you” message !
Now I can watch Regina Spektor’s videos again
July 22nd, 2010 - 16:53
Sir… You are the man! This has been driving me nuts… But your script worked perfectly…
July 24th, 2010 - 21:15
Running the commands in your script was effortless.
Flashplayer now works flawlessly for me.
I love you.
July 31st, 2010 - 07:50
fantastic script. works fine. thanx
July 31st, 2010 - 10:41
Excellent, it works grea for me!!
August 1st, 2010 - 17:24
This was absolutely necessary to have the capability to view You-tube videos so that my daughter will be more akin to boot Ubuntu instead of Vista on her Laptop.
Version 10.04 (lucid) amd64 / Linux Kernel 2.6.32-24-generic
Firefox 3.6.8
Great job, thanks again.
August 5th, 2010 - 07:27
Great work !!
August 11th, 2010 - 11:24
Thank you! +)
August 19th, 2010 - 04:44
Great Job! I have been trying to figure this out. You saved me sooooo…. much time. Thank you!
August 28th, 2010 - 17:02
actually, windows doesn’t has native 64bit flashplayer, as far as i know
installing the 32bit flashplayer in a wrapper is pretty easy by default in linux nowadays.
August 30th, 2010 - 19:57
great job man…work smooth on my computer…10x.
August 31st, 2010 - 21:10
Excellent work, perfect on first run.
September 2nd, 2010 - 15:30
The ubuntu script worked like a charm. Thx
System: Kubuntu 64 bits KDE 4.5.0
September 3rd, 2010 - 00:43
Glad to find a link to the Linux 64-bit Flash plugin.
Now if only they had the 10.1 version up at a similar URL…
September 4th, 2010 - 23:33
Muchos gracias!
September 8th, 2010 - 22:25
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/libflashplayer-10.0.45.2.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz
– link no longer works…
September 12th, 2010 - 13:34
how can you call this a tutorial?
September 12th, 2010 - 15:23
it seems that adobe dropped the link to libflashplayer-10.0.45.2.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz so i’m going to host it instead for now.
you can get it at: http://www.myscienceisbetter.info/flash-player/libflashplayer-10.0.45.2.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz
September 16th, 2010 - 04:39
This didn’t work on CentOS 5.4 and firefox 3. Doesn’t show up as a flash plugin in about:plugins, will have to go back to the wrapper.
September 16th, 2010 - 22:33
Doesn’t work on Fedora 13 with su – …
Stopping any Firefox that might be running
firefox: no process killed
Removing any other flash plugin previously installed:
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
Setting up Remove Process
No Match for argument: flash-plugin
No Match for argument: gnash
Package(s) gnash available, but not installed.
No Match for argument: gnash-plugin
Package(s) gnash-plugin available, but not installed.
No Match for argument: swfdec
No Match for argument: swfdec-mozilla
Resolving Dependencies
–> Running transaction check
—> Package nspluginwrapper.x86_64 0:1.3.0-13.fc13 set to be erased
–> Finished Dependency Resolution
Dependencies Resolved
================================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
================================================================================
Removing:
nspluginwrapper x86_64 1.3.0-13.fc13 @updates 450 k
Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Remove 1 Package(s)
Installed size: 450 k
Downloading Packages:
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
Erasing : nspluginwrapper-1.3.0-13.fc13.x86_64 1/1
Removed:
nspluginwrapper.x86_64 0:1.3.0-13.fc13
Complete!
Installing Flash Player 10
fedora-native-64bit-flash-installer.sh: line 19: wget: command not found
tar: libflashplayer-10.0.45.2.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
cp: cannot stat `libflashplayer.so’: No such file or directory
Linking the libraries so Firefox and apps depending on XULRunner (vuze, liferea, rsswol) can find it.
ln: target `/usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/’ is not a directory: No such file or directory
ln: target `/usr/lib/xulrunner-addons/plugins/’ is not a directory: No such file or directory
September 17th, 2010 - 08:45
Thanks… it’s works
September 19th, 2010 - 16:56
New version of “libflashplayer.so” from Adobe (released 15 Sept 2010)
http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html
September 19th, 2010 - 18:20
adobe flash player “square” is in alpha state.
September 26th, 2010 - 19:14
Thanks — I’ve been trying to load the Flash Player Square and nothing was working (and am new to Ubuntu and Linux). This worked like a charm